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Ma. Jaya Ariola

Maria Jaya Ariola has been in the environmental justice movement since 2016, campaigning in her hometown of Negros Occidental. She currently works as a sustainability manager based in Metro Manila alongside her lifelong activism. She writes, facilitates, and organizes through Youth for Climate Hope, and documents practices towards a more regenerative world at @solarpunk.hopespot.

The most dangerous place in Asia for environmental defenders, and why we refuse to stop

When we lose an environmental and human rights defender, we lose a version of a better world—one that could have only been possible with them in it.